| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Victor Spirin <v(dot)spirin(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows. |
| Date: | 2022-04-08 15:52:20 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZeMB1U-8Kv_90NJMR4yQLsHiaUQGkVTzr=N5N70tZ1eg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 11:45 AM Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> But that's useful for some things and not for others. Like, it's
> useful to be sure we don't have odd dependencies on timing quirks of
> the specific machines that are currently common, or depend on gcc/llvm
> compiler behaviour that isn't guaranteed. But less so for supporting
> some quirky filesystem behaviour on Windows 8 that newer Windows
> doesn't have and Unix guarantees not to have. (Or supporting non-IEEE
> Vax FP now that we've decided we just don't any more).
Yeah, exactly.
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Robert Haas
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